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Tesla ’s habit of raising prices continued last night on both sides of the border. The various models are not directly affected. Rather, it’s about options and fees. More specifically, the available Full Self-Driving capability will now cost buyers $12,800 instead of $10,600. Many were quick to turn to social …

Tesla welcomed throngs of electric car lovers to Austin, Texas on Thursday for a huge party inaugurating a gigafactory the size of 100 professional soccer fields. Giga Texas has been in operation since late last year. It is the fifth and largest gigafactory cranking out battery packs and vehicles for …

Fact: electric vehicles require less maintenance than conventionally powered vehicles since they have fewer mobile parts and don’t use as many liquids. However, in many cases the technology is not quite fully mature yet resulting in more downtime. Following a study by U.S. research firm We Predict that looked at …

Vehicles keep getting safer and more advanced, as evidenced by the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) identifying 65 different models as a 2022 Top Safety Pick+, up from 49 in 2021 and 22 in 2020. If you also count the 36 other models that were named a 2022 …

The usual Ford Taurus and Dodge Chargers that generally populate police force fleets across North America are much different from electric cars. They consume more fuel than the average, are big in size and have an audacious design that screams law enforcement. Today, a growing number of Canadian police forces …

Tesla announced on Wednesday a record profit of $5.5 billion USD in 2021, increasing its revenue 71 percent to $53.82 billion USD, 65 percent of which came in the fourth quarter alone. These results can be attributed to a spectacular 87-percent increase in vehicle deliveries globally—surpassing 936,000 units—despite the ongoing …

Tesla has been making a lot of headlines lately, seemingly half the time for the wrong reasons. Now, Transport Canada has put the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y under an “Issue Assessment Investigation” after receiving 16 consumer complaints. There’s a concern that a malfunctioning heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) …

Electronic car theft is one thing. Remotely accessing and controlling a vehicle is another. David Colombo, a security and hacking expert just 19 years of age, claims in a series of posts on Twitter that he has discovered a software flaw in Tesla ’s systems allowing him to access more …

The Tesla Model S is by far one of the longest-range electric vehicles on the market right now, capable of driving up to 652 kilometres with a pack full of electrons according to Natural Resources Canada. A Michigan-based company, Our Next Energy (ONE), recently managed to travel way farther than …

Just like last year, the holiday season isn’t so fun and cheerful due to yet another rise in COVID-19 infections, so why not find some other ways to have a blast? Like, literally. We think that’s what a Tesla Model S owner in Finland said to himself. Earlier this month, …